It would seem important to test what kind of praise is the right kind – the kind that just might bring a smile to God’s face. We think the praise required of us is the maintenance of a constant state of astonishment at Jesus. Personally, I don’t think he wants to much for us to wave palm fronds at his authority, but rather to locate our own – to be not so astonished at Jesus’ authority but to live astonishingly, inhabiting our own power to live as he would.
--Fr. Greg Boyle, Barking to the Choir
--Fr. Greg Boyle, Barking to the Choir
Image source: William Blake, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1800), oil on copper; http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=169916
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